Improvement in combination writing instruments



O. H. TRASK. Combination Writing Instrument.

No. 196,270. Patented Oct. 16,1877.

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OFFIcE.

CHARLES H. TRASK, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,270, dated October16, 1877; application filed March 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES H. TRASK, of

Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Combination WVriting Instruments,of which the following is a speci fication:

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and convenientwriting instrument, which shall serve for several other useful purposesby having combined therewith a number of useful articles usuallyemployed in writing with pen and pencil and erasing the same; and itconsists in so combining, constructing, and arranging the several partsin a small compass as to admit of the whole being conveniently carriedin the pocket, and when any one particular part is desired for immediateuse the whole may be disconnected, the several parts transposed andreversed, so as to form a convenient holder and handle for any partwhich is desired to accomplish the work sought 5 and it also consists ofthe combination, construction, and arrangement of the several parts,hereinafter more fully described and specified.

Figure l is aview of my invention closed up. Fig. 2 is a similar view,the case in sec tion. Fig. 3 is a view of the parts detached.

Arepresents the writing instrument. B represents the lead-pencil. 0represents a rubber eraser. D represents an ink-eraser,pencil-sharpener, paper-cutter, envelope or letter opener, finger-nailtrimmer, &c., consisting of a small steel blade, having a file, E, uponone side. F represents a cap or head, roughened on its top, so as toserve as a seal for im- H is a part of a perpetual calendar, having theabbreviated days of the week, and made to turn upon the cylindric partL, having thereon the several series of figures representing the days ofthe month, as heretofore constructed, these two parts. H L forming aperpetual calendar. M is a short cylindric tube, into one end of whichis inserted the lead-pencil B, and into the other end the rubber eraserC. This cylindric tube M is fitted to slide within the tube N, whichcontains the knife D, as shown. A raised bead upon the several partsacts as a stop when the same are slid together, as shown in Figs. 1 and2; or the parts N M may be transposed and reversed, as shown in Fig. 3,the whole forming a desirable pocket-companion to serve for the variouspurposes for which the several parts taken separately have been usedheretofore, or when any number less than the whole h. ve been combinedand arranged in a somewhat similar manner. Therefore, I am aware thatthe several parts are not new in themselves.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As an article ofmanufacture, the above-described combination writing instrument,consisting of the pencil B, rubber eraser (J, knife D, having the fileE, cap F, having a roughened top, calendar H L, and tubes M and N, withthe pen-holder A, all being constructed and arranged to operatesubstantially in the manner described, as and for the purposes setforth.

CHARLES H. TRASK. Witnesses:

SYLvENUs WALKER, WVELooME FEL'roN.

